Can anyone help me with this problem? I have had a separate yahoo email for years that I use for contacting Dommes and scheduling sessions. Recently yahoo logged me off and now wants to send a verification link to my backup email which is an Outlook email. The problem is my backup Outlook email does not seem to be receiving new mail or the new emails are not showing up in my inbox and I have checked the spam folder. I cannot find any other way to get into my Yahoo email. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Maybe you have a filter that sent it to some folder you aren't thinking about. Try an Outlook-wide search on several different search terms ("yahoo", etc ).

I'm no expert but here are my suggestions.

1. Long story but try to go to one of the Microsoft chat rooms for a solution. In a recent incident with Microsoft - and Outlook - I was told I needed more memory since I opted out of using its cloud service. The sales pitch has come again that I've "run out of memory." My suggestion is buy memory for a month, see if the yahoo email is there, and then drop Outlook as a backup email.

2. My long term suggestion would be to get out of Outlook as a backup - and Yahoo also - and go with Proton Mail for your session email. If needed get another free email, Gmail from Google for instance.

Good luck!

Thanks. I did try a search for yahoo and other terms in the Outlook email which came up blank. I checked all the email folders and that came up empty too. I never set any filters. Tbh I’m not real tech savvy, less now that I’ve been retired for awhile so I am not familiar with email filters at all. I guess I could have accidentally set one but I don’t think I did

Thanks. Can you tell me where the Microsoft chat rooms can be found? I’d consider buying memory if it wasn’t too expensive but how do I do that?

Are you sure that Yahoo is actually sending you those emails?

If so, you can try contacting your ISP to see if they are filtering "spam" out before it reaches you/their other customers.

I would contact Yahoo. Explain that you are not receiving the verification email. They should have another option for you.

Once you sort that out, I'd abandon ship and move to a more modern and secure email host. Not only is Yahoo notorious for getting hacked (ask me about the horrific stories me and some of my clients have had) but they also openly state they spy on you and go through your emails.

It seems the only way to contact yahoo is to subscribe to “premium customer care” which is $5 per month. I’d be ok with that but I’m sure it’s a recurring charge and I don’t trust them to make it easy to cancel. I agree yahoo is shitty and I will be done with them. There’s a few people who have my yahoo email and occasionally contact me and I don’t want them to think I fell off the face of the earth I will get another email, probably proton, and contact them from there with the new email. Frustrating but there’s worse problems I could have.

I am fairly sure they are sending those emails because they are requiring me to get a verification code from them and enter it to get back into my yahoo email. I’ve also sent the outlook email a test email from my regular email and it doesn’t show up in the outlook inbox either. I am going to mess around in the outlook email some more and maybe I will get lucky and unlock the inbox. I’m also going to create a proton email and go from there.

As far as yahoo goes it seems the only way to contact them is to subscribe to a premium customer service with a monthly fee and I don’t trust yahoo to be able to cancel without a hassle so I don’t want to do that. This must be a common problem with yahoo because they say if you are unable to get back into your yahoo email you are free to create another one to which I say no thanks. . I do appreciate the help here.

Please let us know how it works out.

If you do get back in to your Yahoo account and decide to migrate somewhere else be sure to delete your address book there. It is often used as a tool for spam.